12th man hates 13th amendment.

So do they have to wear their shirts sideways, or what?

I think that we have proportionally fewer, although we have more than people think. The thing is, we have pretty good laws against hate speech, and we have actually acted on them. A lot of the hate propaganda which is aired publicly in the US, what the neo-Nazis say, what the politicians say, what Trump said on the…

I think it’s good, and long overdue. I was not aware of Ms. Desmond’s story and history, I believe that as Canadians we don’t recognize our own history enough, the good, bad and great. Although I question the “first non-royal women” on a note part, as the Famous Five were on the old $50. (also deservedly so)

This idea reeks of a “just so” story. The fact is that the very same people that are so fearful that they are conservative due to epigenetics are those that live with the least actual fear. If your hypothesis was a good descriptor of reality, we should expect those that grew up in war zones or in violent drug…

The odds are something like 10:1 that you’ll accidentally shoot yourself with a gun vs stopping a home invasion or other dangerous situation, but idiots never listen to reason.

Ultimately, this is on the athletes.

Makes total sense, particularly when it comes to explaining why conservatives are more likely to be gun owners. A recent Passionate Eye (Canadian TV documentary show) episode called Gun Shop explored this; it was fascinating to see seemingly not dumb and thoughtful people in a small town buying guns because of fear…

What I can’t understand is how someone could watch a video like this and not have a fierce hatred burn inside them. To watch their fellow man beaten within inches of their life and it not affect them. Or for them to say, “Well if he hadn’t run.”

Again, with these cops. For every video I see of a LEO helping change a…

“Right back here, Officer. In this pocket.”

That sounds like the kind of thing somebody says before getting slapped.

I can see how in the olden days, with one ref whose head was often turned to follow the play, you could get some dirty deeds done behind his back, so the other players on the ice or on the bench would make sure those didn’t go unpunished. There might then have been some positive effect from fighting, that a player had…

Here’s a law professor being awesome explaining facts of life and law to some youthful student member of the self-proclaimed master race (aka a fratboy):

What’s a “Slovekain,” Mr. Senior Editor at The Root? She’s Slovenian (formerly part of Yugoslavia), which some who are not familiar with East European geography confuse with Slovakian (formerly part of Czechoslovakia), but those two relatively new countries have not yet decided to bridge across Austria and Hungary to…

I’m glad this is documented, but i can’t watch more videos of black people being broken by the police state. I’d like to see 1) police reform, 2) prison reform, 3) and government documentation of these sort of events with concent decrees to follow. It’s a limited start, but better than the current state of affairs.

THANK YOU. Aside from the blatant inaccuracy of calling these activists “white kids” (and, yes, I see the P.S. that was added by the author and am not impressed—do better, Root), it’s worth acknowledging that these are teens. They are waking up to what life is like, what privilege means, and they are doing it…

They’ve explicitely talked about how they are inspired by #blacklivesmatter. They’re already trying to signal boost for people and movements that don’t have the privilege of the megaphone that whitness and affluence gives them. . .

I don’t see this as necessarily “moderation”, but more a process of chipping away these problems in manageable parts, which increases the likelihood of overall success. It DOES mean you have to actually continue the work.

Counterpoint: Stick to one issue at a time. If you try to attach Michael’s laundry list of wishes to your goal, you’ll accomplish nothing and the odds of you accomplishing anything are pretty thin to start with.

“17 white lives”

Are you sure about that?